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You've [[Seen It a Million Times]]. Alice has had enough of Bob's crap. She [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|tells him off]], turns on her heel, and marches out of his life for good, announcing "I'm leaving" as she slams the door behind her. A moment later, Bob bellows "'''And Stay Out!'''
This is a [[Stock Phrase]] and the archetypal example of an entire range of behaviors which boil down to attempting -- usually unsuccessfully -- to save face by recasting a negative consequence of one's own actions as a deliberate positive effect, in a kind of [[Xanatos
Note that an instance of this trope does ''not'' have to be based around a literal doorslam -- it can be ''any'' kind of attempt to save face in the wake of a disappointment or embarrassment. Typical phrases other than the trope namer shouted in moments like this include things like "No one walks out on me!", "You'll regret this!", and [[Other Stock Phrases|"You'll never work in this town again!"]] Sometimes the speaker is trying to convince anyone watching... and sometimes he's trying to convince ''himself''.
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